It is a fake. Go to Post #26 just above and follow the link from NGC. Yours does not look like that. Compare the stars around Miss Liberty. Yours...
In my professional (ahem) opinion, it is a 1-penny token from the United Kingdom. That much is certain. I have some not at all like this one but...
I know. It is hard to do everything at once but I did notice the medals. They seemed as old as the books. Well, you know, there's a lot of...
Incidental to the convention, but very important to me, I had dinner with one old friend and lunch with another. I know them both from the...
I downloaded the PDF and put it in my "Sociology" folder. Thanks! Mike M.
Before I left the convention, I saw former Coin World editor-in-chief Beth Deisher at the table for the Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force. They are...
Nice to see that you found something for your passions. The Wildman series is a curious phenomenon. I just did a search on ANA Exact and found...
Sorry that I did not snap her photo. Charmy said that she does not post here because the mechanics of placing images are laborious. She mostly...
[ATTACH] Well, I was pleasantly surprised. A couple of years ago, in Dallas, I reported a thin opening during the show and many, many more people...
Within the first hour on the bourse floor Tuesday, I ran into Paul Gilkes from Coin World. (Paul's desk was behind mine when I worked there. I...
Also at the convention, I joined the International Primitive Money Society. (They have a Facebook page.) Their basic membership is $10 for two...
I just posted my report.
I attended only on Tuesday and Wednesday in order to give a talk in the Sundman Lecture Series on "The Future of Money." Tuesday, I checked in...
Pretty coin! I agree that it rivals what we carry from the US Mint.
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Nice... (Hungary's national emblem tells several stories at once. The cross at the top is tilted because it was bent when the crown was stashed...
Thanks! I will go with the bridge. At least it is in perspective, so there is some motion implied. Also, the Olympics offer the opportunity for...
I like that. She speaks to the times, just as the Walking Liberty and Peace Dollar heralded a new aesthetic in the 1920s, albeit in a classical...
This is Classical: [ATTACH] Dramatic moment, woman weeping... but not a lot of action. Everything is made up of triangles. The dark background...
Then you probably will not like this one: [ATTACH] USSR 1 Rouble. And it is actually "classical" with triangular arrangements like "The Oath of...
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